1 SQL: Structured Query Language Chapter 5 (cont.)  Constraints  Triggers

2 Integrity Constraints  Constraint describes conditions that every legal instance of a relation must satisfy.  Inserts/deletes/updates that violate ICs are disallowed.  Can be used to : ensure application semantics e.g., sid is a key prevent inconsistencies e.g., sname has to be a string, age must be < 200;

3 Types of Integrity Constraints  Fundamental: Domain constraints, Primary key constraints, Foreign key constraints Plus, NOT NULL, UNIQUE.  General: Check constraints Table constraints (assertions)

4 Check or Table Constraints  Can use queries to express constraint. CREATE TABLE Sailors ( sid INTEGER, sname CHAR(10), rating INTEGER, age REAL, PRIMARY KEY (sid), CHECK ( rating >= 1 AND rating <= 10 ))

5 Explicit Domain Constraints CREATE TABLE Sailors ( sid INTEGER, sname CHAR(10), rating values-of-ratings, age REAL, PRIMARY KEY (sid)) CREATE DOMAIN values-of-ratings INTEGER DEFAULT 1 CHECK ( VALUE >= 1 AND VALUE <= 10)

6 More Powerful Table Constraints CREATE TABLE Reserves ( sname CHAR(10), bid INTEGER, day DATE, PRIMARY KEY (bid,day), CONSTRAINT noInterlakeRes CHECK (`Interlake’ <> ( SELECT B.bname FROM Boats B WHERE B.bid= bid)))  Constraint that Interlake boats cannot be reserved:  If condition evaluates to FALSE, update is rejected.

7 Table Constraints  Associated with one table  Only needs to hold TRUE when table is non-empty.

8 Table Constraints with Complex CHECK CREATE TABLE Sailors ( sid INTEGER, sname CHAR(10), rating INTEGER, age REAL, PRIMARY KEY (sid), CHECK ( (SELECT COUNT (S.sid) FROM Sailors S) + (SELECT COUNT (B.bid) FROM Boats B) < 100 )  Symmetric constraint, yet associated with Sailors.  If Sailors is empty, the number of Boats tuples can be anything! Number of boats plus number of sailors is < 100

9 Assertions: Constraints over Multiple Relations CREATE TABLE Sailors ( sid INTEGER, sname CHAR(10), rating INTEGER, age REAL, PRIMARY KEY (sid), )  ASSERTION not associated with either table. CREATE ASSERTION smallClub CHECK ( (SELECT COUNT (S.sid) FROM Sailors S) + (SELECT COUNT (B.bid) FROM Boats B) < 100 ) Number of boats plus number of sailors is < 100

10 Triggers (Active database)  Trigger: A procedure that starts automatically if specified changes occur to the DBMS  Analog to a "daemon" that monitors a database for certain events to occur  Three parts:  Event (activates the trigger)  Condition (tests whether the triggers should run) [Optional]  Action (what happens if the trigger runs)  Semantics:  When an event occurs,  And this condition is satisfied,  Then the associated action is performed.

11 Triggers – Event,Condition,Action  Events could be : BEFORE|AFTER INSERT|UPDATE|DELETE ON e.g.: BEFORE INSERT ON Professor  Condition is SQL expression that or even an SQL query (A query with a non-empty result means TRUE)  Action can be many different choices :  SQL statements, body of PSM, and even DDL and transaction-oriented statements like “commit”.

12 Example Trigger Assume our DB has a relation schema : Professor (pNum, pName, salary) We want to write a trigger that : Ensures that any new professor inserted has salary >= 90000

13 Example Trigger CREATE TRIGGER minSalary BEFORE INSERT ON Professor for what context ? BEGIN check for violation here ? END;

14 Example Trigger CREATE TRIGGER minSalary BEFORE INSERT ON Professor FOR EACH ROW BEGIN Violation of Minimum Professor Salary? END;

15 Example Trigger CREATE TRIGGER minSalary BEFORE INSERT ON Professor FOR EACH ROW BEGIN IF (:new.salary < 90000) THEN RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR (-20004, ‘Violation of Minimum Professor Salary’); END IF; END;

16 Example trigger CREATE TRIGGER minSalary BEFORE INSERT ON Professor FOR EACH ROW DECLARE temp int; -- dummy variable not needed BEGIN IF (:new.salary < 90000) THEN RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR (-20004, ‘Violation of Minimum Professor Salary’); END IF; temp := 10;-- to illustrate declared variables END;. Note: In SQLPLUS, don’t forget the “dot” after the trigger.

17 Details of Trigger Example  BEFORE INSERT ON Professor  This trigger is checked before the tuple is inserted  FOR EACH ROW  specifies that trigger is performed for each row inserted  :new  refers to the new tuple inserted  If (:new.salary < 90000)  then an application error is raised and hence the row is not inserted; otherwise the row is inserted.  Use error code: ;  this is invalid range

18 Example Trigger Using Condition CREATE TRIGGER minSalary BEFORE INSERT ON Professor FOR EACH ROW WHEN (new.salary < 90000) BEGIN RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR (-20004, ‘Violation of Minimum Professor Salary’); END;  Conditions can refer to old/new values of tuples modified by the statement activating the trigger.

19 Triggers: REFERENCING CREATE TRIGGER minSalary BEFORE INSERT ON Professor REFERENCING NEW as newTuple FOR EACH ROW WHEN (newTuple.salary < 90000) BEGIN RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR (-20004, ‘Violation of Minimum Professor Salary’); END;

20 Example Trigger CREATE TRIGGER minSalary BEFORE UPDATE ON Professor REFERENCING OLD AS oldTuple NEW as newTuple FOR EACH ROW WHEN (newTuple.salary < oldTuple.salary) BEGIN RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR (-20004, ‘Salary Decreasing !!’); END;  Ensure that salary does not decrease

21 Another Trigger Example (SQL:99) CREATE TRIGGER youngSailorUpdate AFTER INSERT ON SAILORS REFERENCING NEW TABLE AS NewSailors FOR EACH STATEMENT INSERT INTO YoungSailors(sid, name, age, rating) SELECT sid, name, age, rating FROM NewSailors N WHERE N.age <= 18

22 Row vs Statement Level Trigger  Row level: activated once per modified tuple  Statement level: activate once per SQL statement  Row level triggers can access new data, statement level triggers cannot generally do that (depends on DBMS).  Statement level triggers will be more efficient if we do not need to make row-specific decisions

23 Row vs Statement Level Trigger  Example: Consider a relation schema : Account (num, amount) where we will allow creation of new accounts only during normal business hours.

24 Example: Statement level trigger CREATE TRIGGER MYTRIG1 BEFORE INSERT ON Account FOR EACH STATEMENT BEGIN IF (TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,’dy’) IN (‘sat’,’sun’)) OR (TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,’hh24:mi’) NOT BETWEEN ’08:00’ AND ’17:00’) THEN RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR(-20500,’Cannot create new account now !!’); END IF; END; Note: “FOR EACH STATEMENT” is default; so in some systems you omit this clause!

25 Another Trigger Example (SQL:99) CREATE TRIGGER youngSailorUpdate AFTER INSERT ON SAILORS REFERENCING NEW TABLE AS NewSailors FOR EACH STATEMENT INSERT INTO YoungSailors(sid, name, age, rating) SELECT sid, name, age, rating FROM NewSailors N WHERE N.age <= 18 Note: Oracle uses “ FOR EACH STATEMENT” as default, hence you would simply not list this. They also do not support reference to such a delta-table as above.

26 When to use BEFORE/AFTER  Based on semantics and also on efficiency considerations.  Suppose we perform statement-level after insert, then all the rows are inserted first, then if the condition fails, and all the inserted rows must be “rolled back”  Not very efficient !!

27 Combining multiple events into one trigger CREATE TRIGGER salaryRestrictions AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE ON Professor FOR EACH ROW BEGIN IF (INSERTING AND :new.salary < 90000) THEN RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR (-20004, 'below min salary'); END IF; IF (UPDATING AND :new.salary < :old.salary) THEN RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR (-20004, ‘Salary Decreasing !!'); END IF; END;

28 Summary : Trigger Syntax CREATE TRIGGER BEFORE|AFTER INSERT|DELETE|UPDATE [OF ] ON | [REFERENCING [OLD AS ] [NEW AS ]] [FOR EACH ROW] (default is “FOR EACH STATEMENT”) [WHEN ( )] ;

29 Some Points about Triggers  Check the system tables :  user_triggers  user_trigger_cols  ORA : mutating relation problem  In a row level trigger, you cannot have the body refer to the table specified in the event  Also INSTEAD OF triggers can be specified on views

30 Some Points about Triggers  Check the system tables :  user_triggers  user_trigger_cols  ORA : mutating relation problem  In a row level trigger, you cannot have the body refer to the table specified in the event  Also INSTEAD OF triggers can be specified on views

31 Some Points about Triggers  Check the system tables :  user_triggers  user_trigger_cols  ORA : mutating relation problem  In a row level trigger, you cannot have the body refer to the table specified in the event  Also INSTEAD OF triggers can be specified on views

32 Triggers and Oracle Note 1: Running Triggers. End CREATE TRIGGER statement with a dot and run:  Type the body of the trigger  Press '.' to terminate the sql statement  Type 'run' to create the trigger Example: > CREATE TRIGGER minSalary BEFORE …. …. END;. > run;  Running the CREATE TRIGGER statement only creates the trigger; it does not execute it.  Only a triggering event, such as an insertion, causes the trigger to execute.

33 Triggers and Oracle  Note 2: Displaying Trigger Definition Errors If you get compilation errors, you can see the error messages by typing in:  show errors trigger ; Example: > show errors trigger minSalary; However, the reported line numbers where the errors occur are not always accurate.

34 Constraints versus Triggers  Constraints are useful for database consistency  Use IC when sufficient  More opportunity for optimization  Not restricted into insert/delete/update  Triggers are flexible and powerful  Alerters  Event logging for auditing  Security enforcement  Analysis of table accesses (statistics)  Workflow and business intelligence …  But can be hard to understand ……  Several triggers (Arbitrary order  unpredictable !?)  Chain triggers (When to stop ?)  Recursive triggers (Termination?)

35 Summary  SQL allows specification of rich integrity constraints and their efficient maintenance  Triggers respond to changes in the database: powerful for enforcing application semantics